Viewing profile — scirocco

Their website looks like a poorly designed lifestyle blog

Montessori from age 6 to 15. - Self paced learning and choosing how to spend your time - Need to collaborate with your peers on scarce resources (everyone can't read the same book …

Three years ago I booked a flight to San Juan (SJU), Puerto Rico by mistake. I was supposed to go to San Jose (SJO) in Costa Rica. I will never forget the moment I read "SJO" in th…

Why not run Linux?

I'm young with no kids and appreciate remote work / working from home (up to 3 days a week but not more). Can exercise when I want during the day, easier to run errands and less fr…

Meanwhile, if you ask a pilot today on advice... They will say, get a university degree and look elsewhere than aviation

Audi A5 - still a small wheel in the 2017 model

Interesting, so we might have moved from: Big, incumbent non-SW company (Kodak example) being challenged by start-up to Big, software incumbent (Salesforce) with massive developer …

This is a good start, "Money as debt". Saw it in university and since then you will never take financial markets seriously. And all the "stimulus" we see is just pushing the can fo…

Absolutely, unfortunately taylorism did follow suit into the world of knowledge workers. In some hostile work environments like banking this is everywhere. Don't leave before your …

And I have to change time everytime my watch has been laying still two days...

Imagine ride-sharing companies bidding for different drivers in real-time where drivers would set their minimum fare.

Yes, having lived in Barcelona for 2 years I can confirm that. Winter was the best time there

I wonder how many solutions within the AI field could just be categorized as "Automation"

Dogs have owners, cats have staff :)

a16z Podcast: The Environment, Capitalism, Technology, where Marc Andreessen and Andrew McAfee, author of More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fe…

How about turning those into open source projects? Especially across public organizations who could develop the systems together if they just knew they shared the same needs

I've heard from someone selling security products that some companies prefer to pay ransonware to a hacker, instead of investing in building up their defense and paying for securit…

Same here. More often than not, there's people in HN who have experience with a topic and can add perspective (and hopefully an impartial view). More than ever, we need to tone dow…

That's life on the stock market. Owners want a return, dividends or increase in share price. Go private and you can do just as you say

This highlights why golf is such a great sport. Four hours of emotional rollercoaster spent in nature your friends (or other members at your club you just happen to go the round wi…

Rather not be alive to see air-cooled, rear-flat-engine Porsche 911's from the 70s go electric

How about veteran cars?

"Buy land, they're not making it anymore" - Mark Twain